Any Given Sunday
1999 Directed by Oliver Stone
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Play or be Played.
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove her self in a male dominated world.
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I remember when I saw this film for the very first time ... I was in high school ... my sophomore year on the football team ... and it was a friday afternoon after school ended. The football team always stayed after school, and we would all hang out in the locker room and relax, just getting out minds off things to help us prepare for the night's game. Sometimes we would even watch football movies. Well, on this day, we watched "ANY GIVEN SUNDAY", and I can tell you right now ... my first impression/opinion of this film when I first saw it all the way back then ... it has not changed one single bit.
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Oliver Stone's big loud brash American Football movie, far to long, boring and your lucky if any shot lasts more than 10 seconds.
Al Pacino is the best thing in this as the ageing coach losing control against the younger players, Jamie Foxx is the third choice Quarter Back who gets a starting place due to injury, and turns from normal dude into cocky party machine after about two games. Cameron Diaz is terrible as the teams ruthless GM.
Stone's direction is all over the place, it feels like an epileptic fit, scenes mixed with everything from old films, thunder and lighting and training montages. There is a game played in monsoon conditions with no lights, just ridiculous.
Stone even has a cameo as a loud, annoying, fat, stupid colour commentator.The words I would chose to describe this film.
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Is it just me or is Everyone in this film an arsehole.
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A great sports movie which sometimes doesn't quite finish off what it starts but features an eclectic cast all doing good work and one of the best representations of in-play filming you'll ever see.
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So here's two things. 1 - I'm not a fan of sport, 2 - I'm not usually drawn to pure drama. You may ask then what the hell was I doing watching this? Well, of all the sport I find engaging, American Football is at the top of the list. So after recently watching the Superbowl, I saw this and thought I'd give it a shot.
I was also going to say at the start of this, that since it's an older movie, I'll keep the review short, who's reading reviews for old movies? But then I realised it came out in the same year as the Matrix (1999) and then I felt sad that the Matrix was old, and…
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This movie took me literally days to get through. I kept starting it, getting bored, and turning it off. Not that I really care that much about football, but Oliver Stone really butchers the sport here. His cynical and over the top take on professional athletes is only matched by his cynical and over the top take on professional team owners and team management. Skip this film and watch HBO's fantastic series Hard Knocks instead.
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Damals im Kino gesehen und heute - gut 10 Jahre später - mal wieder die DVD eingelegt. Für alle die American Football lieben ein muss!
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Is it just me or is Everyone in this film an arsehole.
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I know nothing about American football but Any Given Sunday at least makes it look exciting. The performances are all good, it's slickly directed and although it's long it is entertaining.
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A great sports movie which sometimes doesn't quite finish off what it starts but features an eclectic cast all doing good work and one of the best representations of in-play filming you'll ever see.
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Gripping and well-made. Formulaic at times, but never crosses the boundary to become cliché overall .
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A strange film coming from Oliver Stone, but it's still entertaining. It's way overstuffed with too many characters and sub-plots, but that's also part of what makes it fun to watch. It certainly doesn't feel like your average football movie.
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I was never able to understand or to get anything out of these sports movies. Not my genre I guess, they just don't connect with me.
I'll make a few exceptions for fighting movies, and I also enjoyed Moneyball, but mostly American sports isn't my thing. I don't understand the rules, and besides they all seem utterly predictable.
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I'd rather just watch actual football then Oliver Stone's soap opera version of football.
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gracias a mi hermanito he podido disfrutar de este peliculon sobre el fútbol americano